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Originally Posted by Stuart
I suppose technically it's the government's job to manage the state which is supposedly there to look after those who need it.
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Purely a safety net though - the idea of being 'looked after' by the government doesn't appeal, it's their job to be there when you can't look after yourself, any other expectation is, to my mind, inappropriate. Maybe I'm a bit too libertarian in that regard
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Originally Posted by Stuart
You are right, the Government's primary income is from us. As such, when they waste money, it's our money.
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It's basically all from us. Something people often forget when they talk about companies paying tax is that these companies make money from their customers, and eventually the customers are us most of the time, either directly or through our purchases of other items relying on them.